From nobody Tue Oct 10 02:18:06 2006 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k9A8I6pE027472 for ROOTS-M; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:18:06 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9A8E9Yn026981 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:14:09 -0600 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.41]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9A8E8dw007005 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:14:08 -0600 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k9A8E78T026951 for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:14:07 -0600 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9A8E7Yn026940 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:14:07 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9A8E5lH006947 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:14:05 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k9A5V9FI023426 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:31:09 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k9A5V9XJ023425 for roots-l@rootsweb.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:31:09 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k99Ie7FI021967 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:40:07 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k99LMoXr003453 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:22:50 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Mon Oct 9 15:22:50 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k99LMoYn003444 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:22:50 -0600 Received: from centrmmtao05.cox.net (centrmmtao05.cox.net [70.168.83.79]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k99LMl2W027562 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:22:48 -0600 Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by centrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20061009212244.VWCG23166.centrmmtao05.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:22:44 -0400 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id YMNV1V00C481DKL0000000 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:22:29 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:22:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <452A7757.19361.52BD4F38@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] 1920's-30's Merchant Marine Records To: "Yvonne Holste" Subject: 1920's-30's Merchant Marine Records Date sent: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:18:11 -0500 Yvonne, Do you know Joseph Leemans' wife's name? Children's names? There is a Joseph Leemans, (b) c. 1895 in Belgium who was in Moline Illinois on 1930 census. He came to US in 1920. Occupation in 1930 was Carpenter. I can tell you more if this is the one you're looking for. juanita > How would I find Merchant Marine Records from the 20's and 30's?? > Records weren't kept by the military like they are now, and there > was no academy to attend back then as far as I know. I'm looking > for Belgian-born Joseph Leemans who worked on a cargo ship between > Europe and the US during that time. His boat was torpedoed by > Germans in the N Atlantic Region. He recovered in a British > hospital then sent home to NJ. I would think there would be some > sort of medical record, or something I could find, but I don't even > know the name of the boat he was on. I need help, where do I start??